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Menu du jour ice cream school : 11 Recipes


  • Recipe MAKING THE ICE CREAM BASE...
    MAKING THE ICE CREAM BASE...
  • Recipe Lesson 18 ? Ice-cream and Pizelles!
    Lesson 18 ? Ice-cream and Pizelles!
    In lesson 18, we got to beat the heat a bit and make ice-cream! I?ve made ice-cream at home before but never in such a huge machine. The process though was fairly similar. Combine milk, cream and sugar and bring to a boil, temper some whisked[...]
  • Recipe Lessons 22-25 ? Pate a Choux ? Eclairs, Cream Puffs, Profiteroles & Croquembouche
    Lessons 22-25 ? Pate a Choux ? Eclairs, Cream Puffs, Profiteroles & Croquembouche
    These last couple of lessons in our first module were some of my favorite. We started the class creating Pate a Choux (Cream Puff Pastry) which is the dough used in eclairs and cream puffs. From there we proceeded to make pastry cream and creme[...]
  • Recipe Withdrawals
    Withdrawals
    Before I get to this post.. I edited my “ About Beek ” page with a few new pictures and a more appropriate “about” for the beginning of 2010. Confession :  I am leaving  home to go to the best culinary school in the[...]
  • Recipe One pot meals
    One pot meals
    Hey, look, she's back again! Since I'm enjoying a relaxing evening in tonight, I felt the need to share my first dinner cooked in my new apartment. I use the term "Cook" loosely here as I have no working oven and temperamental gas stove tops. I[...]
  • Recipe holy mole yum!
    holy mole yum!
    Inspired by my meet up with Deb and Heather , I had an awesome  protein filled FIRST breakfast of 2010:  Cocoa Protein Pancakes with maple syrup and Hole Mole nut butter from the one and only Smoothie Girl . I used the tried and[...]
  • Recipe Oh, Quantities.
    Oh, Quantities.
    Where have I been??you might be asking yourself this?I realize.  Oh boy.  Where do I even begin?  I started a new class almost immediately upon my return to the CIA from summer break.  (Bahaha, gimme a break.  It was a three-week pause.  I?d hardly[...]
  • Recipe MAKING THE SYRUP ...
    MAKING THE SYRUP ...
  • Recipe There are Veggies in my Peanut Butter
    There are Veggies in my Peanut Butter
    While taking a break (ehem?) from readings I was doing some blog catch up and came across Katie?s brand spankin? new Raw ?Sneaky Veggie? Cheesecake . Raw cheesecake? made with nut butter? that includes zucchini?! Well I sure was intrigued.[...]
  • Recipe Lessons 20-21 ? Sorbet, Granita, Bombes and Tulipes
    Lessons 20-21 ? Sorbet, Granita, Bombes and Tulipes
    In the next couple of lessons we got back to frozen desserts, tackling sorbet, granita and bombes.  Surprisingly, sorbet is actually made in a very similar way to ice-cream, minus the cream. In case you don’t know, Granita is a frozen ice[...]